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We just surpassed Beehaw in total users putting us at the second most populated instance.

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Thing is, lemmy doesn't support clustering/horizontal scaling. So there are limits to how much increasing you can do. You can beef up with a database cluster, add a separate reverse proxy, and increase the specs of the hardware lemmy is running on (but hardware can't be expanded limitless), but that's about it. Once you hit the limit of what a single instance of the lemmy software can handle, you cannot scale anymore. Pretty sure you will hit the limit long before you reach thousands of dollars.

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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?

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I'm not sure your second paragraph is correct. First of all, it's "just in time" so will only be replicated if somebody on that instance is following it. But more importantly, I read a statement from a server owner somewhere that the software purges older content regularly (and refetches is "just in time" when somebody tries to view the old content) to keep storage size down.

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Tvilsomt. Fediverset er fortsatt for komplisert for hvermannsen. Om man klarer å lage en mer smidig og forståelig måte å abbonere på tvers av instanser, samt å søke opp innhold og grupper på tvers av instanser vil jeg tro at det er langt mer sannsynlig at fediverset blir "mainstream".

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Må si jeg er glad for at jeg valgte lemmy.world. (dog opprettet også en konto på lemmy.ml men har ikke brukt den). Vil heller leve med litt trolling og slikt enn å være i et ekkokammer/"safe space". Viktig å får utfordret mine syn på ting og tang i ny og ned.

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The upvote jumping is caused by issues with the websocket implementation. As far as I heard they are going to get rid of websockets completely in the next version and have static page rendering instead.

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A very big forum I that I was on the moderator team of about fifteen or so years ago had a rather neat solution. You could freely upvote, but you could only downvote 5 comments every 24 hours. It actually worked rather well.

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We just surpassed Beehaw in total users putting us at the second most populated instance.

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Yeah. But horizontal scaling (well horizontal scaling in a system like this where you need clustering so the instances talk to each other) is hard. And I think there are a lot of other things that need to be polished, added and worked on before that. It would probably also need somebody with knowledge of clustering to start contributing. I think step 1 needs to be that the dev team needs more help properly tuning the database use. The database is very inefficient, and they lack the skill to improve it:

We are in desperate need of SQL experts, as my SQL skills are very mediocre. ^https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2877^

So getting help improving the database is probably the #1 thing that can be done to deal with the scaling problem.